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Chapter 7 – The End of Reality

Beyond the Rest of Us –By Chapter 7 of the book some readers may have become confused by the chain of events. All humans are basically storytellers and authors are required to organise their stories into chains of causes and effects, leading the reader deeper into a fictional rabbit hole of action and emotion. Some readers may even believe that these stories are how the world works, when in fact they are just a framework we use to manipulate the world for the convenience of our entertainment. When the reader finds the pilot with Janet and her children on a Caribbean Island, in another dimension you are being taken out of your comfort zone to somewhere you cannot understand. Is it time to read another women’s book on Yoga, or something about speed traps for the men? But wait Janet is a mother and her children are so much at risk, maybe you should read to the end of the chapter?

“ Lindsay had already stepped down from the cab and looked carefully around him. The only sign he saw in the headlights of the ambulance was the name of the house in a black wrought iron on the wall which said “THE REST OF US.” Janet carried her daughter in her arms, but Ben was ahead of her and saw there was a new engraving on the front door”.

Lindsay and Janet know they are in a future dimension, but the objects around them are all familiar, the ambulance they find appears real, the island with a volcano is familiar and their house is still much the same, with some new additions. We’re inclined to think that perception is like a window on reality as it is. But the theory of evolution is telling us that this is an incorrect interpretation of our perceptions. The physical objects we see around us may be more like a 3D computer desktop that is designed to hide the complexity of the real world in order to guide our behaviour.

Do we see reality as it is or is our perception of the world simply an ILLUSION? Cognitive scientist Donald Hoffman claims we’re being tricked into believing our own reality. He believes that what we are seeing around us is simply a façade that guides our way around a far more complex and hidden matrix. According to evolution by natural selection, an organism that sees reality as it is will never be more fit than an organism of equal complexity that sees none of reality but is just tuned to fitness. Evolution has shaped us with perceptions that allow us to survive and that’s pretty much all of reality, whatever reality might be.

According to Donald Hoffman from the University of California, what is the relationship between your brain and your conscious experiences, such as your experience of the taste of chocolate or the feeling of new underwear? Some experts think that we can’t solve this problem because we lack the necessary concepts and intelligence. Could it be misinterpreting the nature of our perceptions? We have misinterpreted our perceptions before. We used to think the Earth is flat, because it looks that way. Pythagoras discovered that we were wrong. What does modern science have to say when neuroscientists tell us that we are creating in real time, all the shapes, objects, colours, and motions that we see. It feels like we’re just taking a snapshot of this room the way it is, but in fact, we’re constructing everything that we see. We don’t construct the whole world at once. We construct what we need in the moment, by what he calls conscious realism.

More is explained in this TED talk https://www.ted.com/talks/donald_hoffman_do_we_see_reality_as_it_is?language=en

 

Chapter 6 – Time travel and the speed of light

Beyond the Rest of Us –Chapter 6 of the book finds Janet and the pilot Lindsay on her private jet flying out to the Caribbean. This plane has been equipped with a DNA computer in order to try and avoid the military spy satellites, which can track anything on the surface of the planet. Janet uses her time travelling medallion to move just one day through time, but her son engages the dimensional device with disastrous results:

“ ‘ Lindsay could see the plane flying down a tunnel with flashes of light on either side of what looked like a wormhole. There was no sound of the aero- engines and no sense of any time. The plane was now flying in a vortex of energy, just as Janet had seen below the Khufu pyramid. The children were almost floating beside her and the pearl decoration on her top was glowing in the dark. Suddenly there was another bright flash and the darkness ended. Looking out into the cockpit, Janet saw the plane was once again in the open, flying in a blue sky but with a black sea down below.”

In order to time travel a person would have to move faster than the speed of light, which is not as far-fetched as it may at first appear. There are some particular loopholes to this, one of which is the speed of a particular spacetime frame, which can surpass the local speed of light relative to other inertial frames of reference. Some explanations were provided by William Brown, Biophysicist and Academy Faculty member at the Resonance Project:

“Superluminal velocities (speeds greater than the speed of light, c) would result in travel “back in time”. In addition to facilitating effectively faster than light travel, wormholes could potentially be used as time machines, in the following sense first developed by Caltech theoretical physicist Kip Thorne. Imagine an advanced technology capable of creating, manipulating, and containing both ends of a stable, traversable, wormhole. Place one end in a laboratory on Earth and the other on a spacecraft capable of traveling through space at some reasonable fraction of the speed of light. Imagine the wormhole connecting the lab and spaceship is created in some future year, say 2500. Now keep one end on Earth and send the spaceship off in any direction at some appreciable fraction of the speed of light for a finite duration after which it will decelerate, turn around come back to Earth, and stop, so the wormholes ends are brought back together. Relativity tells us that the clocks of observers left on Earth and those in a relativistic moving spacecraft will begin to differ by an amount that depends on the speed of the craft. Since moving clocks run slow in relativity, a spaceship observer might experience a short subjective duration of say, a few weeks, but thousands of years could pass in the external universe depending on how fast they were traveling. In this sense, time travel to the future is easy, and does not require wormholes, just a ship capable of moving at relativistic speeds. A spaceship executing the above manoeuvre might find itself thousands of years in the future after stopping. Yet an observer at the wormhole mouth in the laboratory on Earth would still have its clock synchronized with the shipboard wormhole. If the ship finds itself, say in year 3500, after returning to Earth, any observers on the ship could return to the year 2500, traveling 1000 years into the past, simply by stepping through their shipboard wormhole back into the laboratory on Earth. In this way, wormholes could theoretically be used to travel into the past.”

See – Wormholes, Time Machines, and the Weak Energy Condition for more – http://authors.library.caltech.edu/9262/1/MORprl88.pdf

Chapter 5 – Arrow of Time

Beyond the Rest of Us –When readers reach Chapter 5 of the book they will find that James and the Professor are being held prisoner at a Government clinic in Eastern Europe. Once again we find the Czech girl Jana at the clinic, but it is the time traveller Natalie (from book 2) who comes to rescue James. Although James knows he’s in a 19th century illusion, it is necessary to bring his mind forward to an event from his recent past. One analogy might be a reset point on a computer that restores events to an earlier point in time, as she explained in her solution below:

“ ‘Alright James, if you still like being on ships, I can bring you back to July 1972, in Naples, Italy if you agree? From there Alexei will help you come back to our present time,’ she proposed.”

“That sounds alright if it’s with Alexei, I can agree, but please make it fast, time is running out.”

This all sounds Science fiction, but some believe that our perception of time is something that is flowing just like an illusion. Then our physical universe might be compared to a movie/motion picture, in which a series of still images shown on a screen creates the illusion of moving images. This idea was explained recently by one physicist who thinks time operates in units and is not a constant flow of data.

If this view is taken seriously, then our conscious perception of physical reality based on continuous motion becomes an illusion produced by a discrete underlying mathematical structure. This proposal makes physical reality platonic in nature, referring to Plato’s argument that true reality exists independent of our senses. However, unlike other theories of platonic idealism, this proposal can be experimentally tested and not just argued about philosophically. In a spacetime memory system, space has all the properties necessary to exhibit within it an intrinsic awareness and sentience.

According to a report in http://phys.org/news/2016-02-physicists-implications-quantum-mechanics-philosophy.html , an ultimate limit of time means that it is not possible for two events to be separated by a time smaller than units of Planck time. However, new research carried out at the University of Waterloo and University of Lethbridge, in Canada, argues there is a much longer measureable minimum unit of time. If true, the existence of such a minimum time changes the basic equations of quantum mechanics. This means our understanding of how the universe operates on a very small scale may need to reconsidered. ‘It might be possible that, in the universe, the minimum time scale is actually much larger than the Planck time, and this can be directly tested experimentally,’ explained Mir Faizal at the University of Waterloo. ‘Because Planck time is so short, no experiment has been able to prove it directly’. But Faizal says there are a number of tests that can show how a unit of time is longer than Planck time, such as measuring the rate of spontaneous emission of a hydrogen atom. The new quantum mechanical equation predicts a different rate of spontaneous emission, which could help predict Planck time. Phys.org reports that the team believe time is more like a crystal structure, made up of discrete, regularly repeating segments.

Physicists say this new theory could help make time travel a reality http://dailym.ai/1QQpLQE.

This chapter brings the hero back to more recent time and space again. In order not to spoil the story further, please ask individual questions about the science, on my Goodreads blog.

Chapter 5 – Arrow of Time

Beyond the Rest of Us –When readers reach Chapter 5 of the book they will find that James and the Professor are being held prisoner at a Government clinic in Eastern Europe. Once again we find the Czech girl Jana at the clinic, but it is the time traveller Natalie (from book 2) who comes to rescue James. Although James knows he’s in a 19th century illusion, it is necessary to bring his mind forward to an event from his recent past. One analogy might be a reset point on a computer that restores events to an earlier point in time, as she explained in her solution below:

“ ‘Alright James, if you still like being on ships, I can bring you back to July 1972, in Naples, Italy if you agree? From there Alexei will help you come back to our present time,’ she proposed.”

“That sounds alright if it’s with Alexei, I can agree, but please make it fast, time is running out.”

This all sounds Science fiction, but some believe that our perception of time is something that is flowing just like an illusion. Then our physical universe might be compared to a movie/motion picture, in which a series of still images shown on a screen creates the illusion of moving images. This idea was explained recently by one physicist who thinks time operates in units and is not a constant flow of data.

If this view is taken seriously, then our conscious perception of physical reality based on continuous motion becomes an illusion produced by a discrete underlying mathematical structure. This proposal makes physical reality platonic in nature, referring to Plato’s argument that true reality exists independent of our senses. However, unlike other theories of platonic idealism, this proposal can be experimentally tested and not just argued about philosophically. In a spacetime memory system, space has all the properties necessary to exhibit within it an intrinsic awareness and sentience.

According to a report in http://phys.org/news/2016-02-physicists-implications-quantum-mechanics-philosophy.html , an ultimate limit of time means that it is not possible for two events to be separated by a time smaller than units of Planck time. However, new research carried out at the University of Waterloo and University of Lethbridge, in Canada, argues there is a much longer measureable minimum unit of time. If true, the existence of such a minimum time changes the basic equations of quantum mechanics. This means our understanding of how the universe operates on a very small scale may need to reconsidered. ‘It might be possible that, in the universe, the minimum time scale is actually much larger than the Planck time, and this can be directly tested experimentally,’ explained Mir Faizal at the University of Waterloo. ‘Because Planck time is so short, no experiment has been able to prove it directly’. But Faizal says there are a number of tests that can show how a unit of time is longer than Planck time, such as measuring the rate of spontaneous emission of a hydrogen atom. The new quantum mechanical equation predicts a different rate of spontaneous emission, which could help predict Planck time. Phys.org reports that the team believe time is more like a crystal structure, made up of discrete, regularly repeating segments.

Physicists say this new theory could help make time travel a reality http://dailym.ai/1QQpLQE.

This chapter brings the hero back to more recent time and space again. In order not to spoil the story further, please ask individual questions about the science, on my Goodreads blog.

Chapter 4 – CONCORDIA

Beyond the Rest of Us –Those of you who watched the link to William Brown on the last post will know how consciousness is the medium through which we experience reality. This chapter is an overview of how consciousness is an active component of nature and is key to our existence in the human mind. The hero James is still dreaming during a hospital operation, when he meets his old friend Janet while they are both in REM sleep (see Phase post). The reader is told that Janet knows of a future event on a luxury cruise ship and seeks his help, as James was an officer on cruise ships in the past. This was how she explained the problem in the story:

“So James, now you know why you are on this ship with me. When this ship sinks the reason will be hidden to most, but for some it will sound an alarm about what little unity remains in this EU project, let alone the danger to the 4,000 souls on board,” she explained.

The subsequent events which took place on the night of Friday 13th January, 2012 were reported in detail by the media. There are many ideas in this chapter – both nautical and political about the European Union, so it’s not easy to see the reality. The discussion between Janet and James gets more complicated when he suggests that other factors may have been in play here?

“What? Are you saying this may not be an accident after all? James! Stop playing the evil banker and think about this more positively.” she replied. “Well it has happened in the past! Did you know that the stocks of both American Airlines and United fell sharply following the 2001 attack?

With intense media reports over the weekend, shares of Carnival Corporation plc, fell by over 20% representing a loss of one billion pounds in market value. But that was the outcome. If we repeat the event in an experimental tank test, we know that the ship will sink because floatation can only sustain two flooded compartments. So in all cases the ship will list, capsize and sink unless we introduce new external forces – sea currents, wind and an island. The voyage reconstruction by John Konrad – AIS Data Netherlands: https://vimeo.com/35351659 is beyond me.“The captain skilfully used the bow thrusters to manoeuvre the ship towards the island.” However the official MIT report states that the ship lost all electrical power within one minute of hitting the rocks (21.45- local time) and was never restored. Without electric power there was no steerage or a bow thruster. Natural forces of the wind and sea currents prevented this accident becoming a maritime disaster. But that did not happen, because by chance, the wind was blowing from the north east? But can people see future events from their consciousness, which might be considered as the spiritual abilities of an individual. Access to future information is also described as paranormal and has never been explained by mainstream science, but new scientific ideas can explain how consciousness may work. There have always been people who can see future events, or places they never visited. The source of this consciousness is in our brain, which connects us to the Universe to access holographical information that can be explained by the space time memory network. This spacetime information theory is a new look at how reality is generated as scientific realists believe that reality is rational, predictable and accessible.

Maritime Matters 2012: http://maritimematters.com/2012/01/costa-concordia-one-week-later-includes-early-statement-from-costa-cruises/

Chapter 4 – CONCORDIA

Beyond the Rest of Us –Those of you who watched the link to William Brown on the last post will know how consciousness is the medium through which we experience reality. This chapter is an overview of how consciousness is an active component of nature and is key to our existence in the human mind. The hero James is still dreaming during a hospital operation, when he meets his old friend Janet while they are both in REM sleep (see Phase post). The reader is told that Janet knows of a future event on a luxury cruise ship and seeks his help, as James was an officer on cruise ships in the past. This was how she explained the problem in the story:

“So James, now you know why you are on this ship with me. When this ship sinks the reason will be hidden to most, but for some it will sound an alarm about what little unity remains in this EU project, let alone the danger to the 4,000 souls on board,” she explained.

The subsequent events which took place on the night of Friday 13th January, 2012 were reported in detail by the media. There are many ideas in this chapter – both nautical and political about the European Union, so it’s not easy to see the reality. The discussion between Janet and James gets more complicated when he suggests that other factors may have been in play here?

“What? Are you saying this may not be an accident after all? James! Stop playing the evil banker and think about this more positively.” she replied. “Well it has happened in the past! Did you know that the stocks of both American Airlines and United fell sharply following the 2001 attack?

With intense media reports over the weekend, shares of Carnival Corporation plc, fell by over 20% representing a loss of one billion pounds in market value. But that was the outcome. If we repeat the event in an experimental tank test, we know that the ship will sink because floatation can only sustain two flooded compartments. So in all cases the ship will list, capsize and sink unless we introduce new external forces – sea currents, wind and an island. The voyage reconstruction by John Konrad – AIS Data Netherlands: https://vimeo.com/35351659 is beyond me.“The captain skilfully used the bow thrusters to manoeuvre the ship towards the island.” However the official MIT report states that the ship lost all electrical power within one minute of hitting the rocks (21.45- local time) and was never restored. Without electric power there was no steerage or a bow thruster. Natural forces of the wind and sea currents prevented this accident becoming a maritime disaster. But that did not happen, because by chance, the wind was blowing from the north east? But can people see future events from their consciousness, which might be considered as the spiritual abilities of an individual. Access to future information is also described as paranormal and has never been explained by mainstream science, but new scientific ideas can explain how consciousness may work. There have always been people who can see future events, or places they never visited. The source of this consciousness is in our brain, which connects us to the Universe to access holographical information that can be explained by the space time memory network. This spacetime information theory is a new look at how reality is generated as scientific realists believe that reality is rational, predictable and accessible.

Maritime Matters 2012: http://maritimematters.com/2012/01/co...

The Holometer findings – (part 2)

Beyond the Rest of Us –I hope readers have been able to follow the last post about the Holometer as now we have a guest post from William Brown, Biophysicist an Academy Faculty member with the Resonance Project Foundation, Kilauea, Hawaii.

“Congratulations on your new book — I think that science fiction can be just as important (if not more so-) than “non-fictional” science. Thank you as well for mentioning this important finding by the Fermi lab Holometer research group. It is very interesting; however we may want to hold off on re-writing the textbooks just yet. There are a couple of issues that must be considered in regards to the results of this experiment. To begin with, this is not the first experimental measurement of our quantum pixelated universe (i.e. holographic) granularity of space. Gamma rays hold a wealth of information about the fine-structure and physical content of space — with potential to measure everything from the presence of primordial black holes (micro-black holes) to quantum spacetime foam. For instance, because higher energy gamma rays will have a smaller wavelength — they will be influenced by the geometry of space much more so than larger wavelength photons (similar to how the electron jitters with zwitterbewegung due to its interaction with the zero-point field. Early measurements seemed to confirm, or at least indicate that indeed higher energy gamma rays travelled slightly slower than their lower energy counterparts because of the granularity of space- http://www.skyandtelescope.com/astron...

However, subsequent measurements have seemed to contradict some of the initial-most findings, indicating that space may be smoother at much smaller scales than initially theorized (http://www.gizmag.com/quantum-spaceti...). This of course is much like the most recent findings of the Holometer research group at Fermi.

You will see however that many scientists, including the researchers finding these results, are certainly not ready to conclude that space is not quantized at the Planck scale. This is for a couple of reasons: namely that these experiments are not comprehensive in their characterization of quantum spacetime pixelization; and because there is very strong theoretical reasons to hypothesize that space is granular, and indeed highly dynamic at the Planck scale.

In regards to the former, for instance, the Holometer experiment is conducted under the presupposition that the vacuum fluctuations of space are highly stochastic in nature — and has not investigated the possibility that there is a coherent, correlated movement of the Planck pixels. This is similar to the Michaelson-Morley results (recall that this one experiment is cited as the empirical proof that the luminiferous aether does not exist). However, the results of the Michaelson-Morley experiment were interpreted under the assumption that the luminiferous aether (what we would now call the vacuum structure of space) is an absolute frame of reference, and hence immobile. This is most certainly incorrect, considering for instance the Haramein-Rauscher amendment to Einstein’s geometrical solution of gravity that includes torque and Coriolis forces of spacetime. In short, if spacetime is spinning in a local frame, then all of the Planck oscillators will be moving in a coherent, correlated manner, which will cause some detection problems for experiments such as the Holometer and even the Michaelson-Morley measurements of the 19th century.

Moreover, vacuum fluctuations of the electric field have recently been directly measured and confirmed, as reported in the October issue of www.sciencemag.org. This is highly germane, as the Planck voxels described in Quantum Gravity and the Holographic Mass are electromagnetic oscillators. Hence, in a sense Haramein describes the generation of gravity and mass through electromagnetic dynamics (the holographic geometry and spin of Planck EM oscillators). It is important to keep in mind that these electromagnetic oscillators are slightly different than speaking of the fluctuations of space itself, as at least in the conventional or modern parlance of physics the electromagnetic field is separate from the spacetime manifold (although in Unified Physics we see that there is no actual separation between these two). This is one of the reasons why, at least theoretically, the spacetime quantum pixelization structure should at some point be detected (suggesting that some parameter is off in the measurements thus far). The electromagnetic oscillations, or to say it another way — the zero-point fluctuations of the electric and magnetic field in free space — have a tremendous amount of energy at the Planck scale; of course leading to the computation of the nearly infinite energy density of the vacuum expectation value (before renormalization). The important point here is that this high mass-energy value of the Planck oscillators means that they will significantly curve spacetime. In fact, the electromagnetic oscillations should be so energetic that they should curve spacetime into micro-black holes, the extended geometry of which are little micro-wormholes. I believe that the empirical evidence in favour of this, and certainly the theoretical underpinnings, are much stronger at this point than the couple of experiments that have failed to observe the quantum geometry of spacetime.

Thanks again for the question.”

More from William on this link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8OnZg... – The Unified Space Memory Network.

This Guest post is by William Brown of the Resonance Project.

Chapter 3 – The Holometer (part 1)

Beyond the Rest of Us –I wasn’t going to post this until the end of the month, but there has been new press about the detection of gravitational waves with laser Interferometers, that science readers might want to consider these previous findings. As we saw in the last post, James has not moved back in time, but is being held deep underground, in a continuous astral dream, somewhere in Europe and the Professor realises their actions in the past may be to blame. Despite the appearance of a shift in time, he has been able to build the scientific machine that he was working on at Fermilab, near Chicago. This is what he described in chapter 3:

“This metal tube here seeks to measure space-time with far more precision than ever before, which as I said is exciting, but also risky. Such a discovery would change the most basic assumptions we make about the universe. In these two chambers on each side of the cellar, we have built two interferometers, L-shaped configurations of metal tubes. Since the laser paths are exactly the same length, the beam should cancel itself out. If it doesn’t that might be evidence of a small jitter in our holographic universe.”

The Fermilab Holometer or Holographic Interferometer is a machine designed to test a particular idea about how space, time, matter, and energy behave on the very smallest scales. We don’t need to know all the scientific details, but what was reported in the British Daily Mail gave a simple layman’s explanation. The Holometer was designed to find out if our world was ‘pixelated’ with an experiment that probed the limits of the universe’s ability to store information. The result published last November (see below) was under the banner headline “Good news, we DON’T live in a hologram: Radical experiment dismisses bizarre theory that our world is an illusion.” But did anyone really understand what was being discussed? After a year-long experiment the bizarre theory that we live in a hologram, was dismissed. The holographic concept has been likened us being characters on a television show who do not know that our seemingly 3D world exists only on a 2D screen. The information about everything in our universe could actually be encoded in tiny packets in two dimensions – but this laser experiment, has proved it was all wrong.

If space comes in 2D bits with limited information about the precise location of objects, then space itself would fall under the same theory of uncertainty. The same way that matter continues to jiggle – as quantum waves – even when cooled to absolute zero. This digitised space should have built-in vibrations even in its lowest energy state. The concept has been likened us being characters on a television show who do not know that our seemingly 3D world exists only on a 2D screen. This machine ruled out this theory to a ‘high level of statistical significance’

Phew that was a close call! The male population can go back to work to produce all those material goods and mothers can relax knowing their children are real and not on a holographic matrix. Modern science has prevailed, with the help of Government funding, to keep the status quo, taxes can be collected and politicians’ re-elected. So do physicist’s need to start re-writing their textbooks, or are these findings more complicated.

More about the Holometer on this link: http://dailym.ai/1Ta85iL

These findings will be challenged in a Guest post by William Brown, Biophysicist, to show that this experiment has not dismissed the idea that our world is holographic.

Chapters 1-2 explained – The Phase

Beyond the Rest of Us -Several readers have asked me to explain the strange events that take place in the first two chapters of the final book. After a technical introduction, the reader is made to ask if the hero James, has really moved back in time to 1814, or is in fact dreaming during a hospital operation. As one seasoned Sci-Fi blogger put it on Goodreads…”one of the strangest books I’ve read for a long time – and yet I enjoyed it without having the blindest clue as to what is going on to whom, why, where or when!” So let’s see if we can draw back the curtain. This is what James thought in chapter 1.

“He closed his eyes and remembered going down to the operating theatre at the hospital, lying on the table next to the anaesthetist, with a cabinet of drugs and vials. The man was English and offered him forty ways to make him dream, so he must have come out of surgery, but to where and in what time he had no idea.”

The clue of course is the mention of ‘forty ways to dream’ but how and why is not explained. Is it possible that someone can hijack the human mind to their own ends? Perhaps there is something out there that has forever altered human history and culture. Something we know little about. Who has stunted human development and who had something to gain from that?

The PHASE is an umbrella term to describe all hybrid states on which the brain centres during REM sleep- when people dream. It’s mentioned in the first paragraph of Chapter 2 but is something that Governments and nice society don’t want you to think about too much. The Phase is like an out of body experience, when the person becomes conscious while dreaming. Sensations can be more intense than physical ones and dreamers no longer feel their body, as they only experience the dream. This all sounds like Science fiction, but Michael Raduga set up the OOBE Research Center in California in 2007 and have conducted mass experiments. His results are startling and explain how most dreams in the Phase can explain Alien Abductions, Religious miracles, paranormal experiences, Lucid dreams, astral projections and near death experiences, to name just a few. In 2011 the OOBE brought together volunteers to artificially reproduce ‘close encounters of the third kind’ – that is alien abduction, see link below. The aim of the experiment was to show that alien abductions can be reproduced in nothing more than a dream. In 2012 his next experiment, concerned scriptural encounters with God and Angels, so if you want to read about the Phase, open the Bible. Have Religions and Governments taken advantage of this to further their own interests? Raduga thinks that people are being duped and led away from this source of human ability. The elites have reason to fear the Phase as man has been programmed for an unconscious existence, working all day to produce goods for our material world. Modern society depends on an endless rat race and would collapse if people woke up and saw how they spend most of their working lives. The story in this book looks at what might happen if Western Governments used mind experiments to control a scientist and difficult people like James. If you want to experience lucid dreaming hit the snooze button when you first wake up and then go back to sleep. Consciously think about your favourite place or person, you may be surprised at what you can do!

More about the OOBE on this link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XsE4m...

The next post will look at the ideas in Chapter 3 and how modern science has proved that our world is not an illusion – or has it?

Introduction – Our Hyper-Connected World

Beyond the Rest of Us is described as a magical, mysterious and fast-paced action thriller with some real Science and a lot of fiction. Some book reviews and several readers have asked me to explain the science which appears in the final book, so what better place to start than with the Introduction.

The story starts at a Geneva hotel where our hero meets his friend and a discussion starts about the dangers of our modern World Internet from both hackers and geopolitical risks from terrorist groups. Some of this research can be found on the website of the World Economic Forum – Global Risk landscape 2013.

“The global risk of massive digital misinformation sits at the centre of a constellation of technological and geopolitical risks ranging from terrorism to cyber-attacks and the failure of global governance. This risk case examines how hyper-connectivity could enable “digital wildfires” to wreak havoc in the real world. It considers the challenge presented by the misuse of an open and easily accessible system and the greater danger of misguided attempts to prevent such outcomes.”

I leave it up to the reader to decide how much of a risk this is in the World today as Governments battle computer hackers across the World. The story line moves from Internet technology, to the current concerns of our hyper-connected world and onto integrated information systems and the possibility of different forms of consciousness. The Introduction therefore sets the scene for a book about different dimensions of time and reality as seen in our everyday lives. However what really interested me was a radical report of how complex networks like the Internet, may become conscious entities in their development. It’s a question that’s perplexed philosophers for centuries and scientists for decades: Where does consciousness come from? We know it exists, at least in ourselves. But how it arises from chemistry and electricity in our brains is an unsolved mystery. Neuroscientist Christof Koch, chief scientific officer at the Allen Institute for Brain Science, thinks he might know the answer. According to Koch, consciousness arises within any sufficiently complex, information-processing system. All animals, from humans on down to earthworms, are conscious; even the internet could be. That’s just the way the universe works.

As James learns in the Introduction “…our brains are connected all the time but on the Internet, computers are packet-switching. They’re not permanently connected, always switching from one to another. To me, I think the internet does feel like something real maybe like being in a deep, dreamless sleep!”

What Koch proposes is a scientifically refined version of an ancient philosophical doctrine called panpsychism — and, coming from someone else, it might sound more like spirituality than science. But Koch has devoted the last three decades to studying the neurological basis of consciousness. His work at the Allen Institute now puts him at the forefront of the BRAIN Initiative, the massive new effort to understand how brains work, which will begin next year.

http://www.wired.com/2013/11/christof...

We will look at this in more detail in the next post about Chapter one and answer more questions from readers.